How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Glenn Ellison ()

No 16419, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which departments. Adjustment factors for differences across fields and years of experience are presented.

JEL-codes: A14 I23 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09
Note: ED PR
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (26)

Published as "How Does the Market Use Citation Da ta? The Hirsch Index in Economics," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 5 (3), 63-90, 2013.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w16419.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics (2013)
Working Paper: How does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:16419

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w16419

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().